As EBU Members and other media companies continue to move services and applications to the cloud, they are concerned about vendor lock-in, data sovereignty, GDPR compliance and environmental sustainability. In addition, media companies face technical and business challenges such as real-time and large file transfers, semantic data interoperability, and cost effectiveness.
The Gaia-X association aims to ensure European companies can access cloud platforms that are secure, interoperable and energy efficient, and that guarantee data privacy and sovereignty. It also seeks to foster a cloud ecosystem aligned with European values and laws, enabling vertical and horizontal chains where data can be easily exchanged but still controlled within trusted data spaces.
As a Gaia-X member, and drawing on this working group, the EBU federates media needs at a European scale, defines use cases, consolidates media-specific requirements, and participates in the definition of GAIA-X specifications. Our goals are competitive multi-cloud solutions that meet media-specific challenges, including at the network edges, can easily be interconnected, configured and decommissioned, and that guarantee secured and controlled access to media data.
The EBU also promote the creation of a European media vertical and data spaces that will not only meet existing needs but also generate new business opportunities across the entire media supply chain.
The group consists of EBU Members and other European actors in the media industry.
Group goals
- Elaborates EBU position, representing European media actors at Gaia-X events
- Organizes regular EBU events and develop reports to share on Gaia-X activities, events and publications
- Get insights from other EBU groups, e.g. DPO (Data Protection officers), HCP (Hybrid Cloud Production) and MCS (Media Cybersecurity) for the definition of EBU position at Gaia-X
- Defines and publishes a list of media use cases that Gaia-X compliant services shall support
- Consolidates media-specific requirements for Gaia-X federated catalogue of services that enable the media use cases
- Contributes to the definition of Gaia-X policies and specifications that answer to media specific challenges
- Shares experience and facilitate the adoption of Gaia-X services by EBU Members
- Drives the creation of a media data space within GAIA-X
- Explores opportunities to create or take part of EU-funded projects to develop sector-specific applications and data space within GAIA-X framework
- Supports a wider adoption of standards, including standard ontologies for data and metadata exchanged between actors in the media sector, that are required for the creation of industry-wide data space
- Determines if a contribution to the technical work of the Gaia-X technical committee is required, where relevant for EBU Members (e.g. development of media-specific ontology)
- Liaises with other European media associations
- Evangelizes for the adoption of Gaia-X by media industry
PUBLICATIONS:
New position paper on Media Data Spaces - NEW (October 2022)
Members only report on the LED Wall based Workshop on Virtual Production.
Recommendation on subtitling to be used on DTV and Online Services.
The main task of broadcasting is to produce attractive, informative audiovisual content.
Broadcasters rely on interpersonal radio communications when making programmes of any sort. The term used to describe such communications is PMSE applications.
Report on the MPEG-H demos given at the EBU Workshop in November 2022.
The Media Node Maturity Checklist (version: April 2023) is designed to aid discussions between customers and vendors and to help customers quickly assess the level of maturity and suitability of ST 2110-based production equipment for deployment.
Minimum user requirements regarding the ensemble of technologies that a Media Node needs to support to enable administrators to efficiently build, operate and maintain an IP architecture based on the SMPTE ST 2110 standards. This is version 3.0, which is a significant update of the publication.
The EBU envisions future media productions adopting highly flexible and dynamic technology approaches.
The BEAR is a renderer for audio content encoded using the Audio Definition Model.
This document concerns the animation of CG 3D characters for live production.
The Dutch public media organization VPRO is developing TypeCast, a podcast player for deaf and hearing-impaired audiences. On page 8, Geert-Jan Strengholt, Creative Director with VPRO Medialab, describes how the project has evolved.
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This Recommendation advises how PSBs, and EBU Members, in particular, can best share their R&D and Innovations.
The EBU’s Audio Systems and Video Systems groups used this summer’s European Championships 2022 at Munich’s Olympiastadion to capture valuable test content. On pages 10–11, Werner Bleisteiner (BR) and Simon Thompson (BBC) describe the aims of the project and the challenges they faced.
Cloud technologies have the potential to disrupt all aspects of the media supply chain but can be perceived as too complex and requiring years of preparation and retraining. This report is designed to help challenge those perceptions.
This positioning paper argues for the creation of a dataspace for the European media and creative industry sector. It describes use cases that could be facilitated within a trusted Media Data Space. It also provides a list of existing projects for content and data sharing, across Europe, that could be federated to create a first iteration of a Data space. The document also presents the existing challenges for data exchange and how a Media Data space could solve them, what are the key technical building blocks needed and some insight on governance and busness models for a media Data space.
